Rep. Meuser to Newsmax: Wray’s Plea for Money ‘Disingenuous’

Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., panned FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations Thursday afternoon, calling the agency “eroded” and Wray an “apologist.”

At the hearing titled the “Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Wray’s opening statement made the case for an $11.3 billion request to go toward “the FBI’s national security, intelligence, criminal law enforcement, and criminal justice services missions.”

“We must here in Congress … assure that national security is as strong as it needs to be,” Meuser said. “But at the same note, we are going to protect the freedoms of the American people. … And we have to do it a on a plan that accomplishes both.” 

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